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| Record Name(s) | Princess Sodalite Mine - 2000, Princess Quarry - 1985 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Producing Mine |
| Date Created | 1985-Nov-25 |
| Date Last Modified | 2024-Jun-06 |
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Primary Commodities: Sodalite
Secondary Commodities: Mineral Specimen
Township or Area: Dungannon
Latitude: 45° 4' 23.04" Longitude: -77° 48' 29.31"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 278956.99 Northing: 4994903.81 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31F04SW
Point Location Description: Precise, from satellite imagery. Location of active north quarry behind rock shop.
Location Method: Field Visit
Access Description: North of, and adjacent to, Hwy 500, 4.3 km E of Bancroft (from the intersection of Hwys 500 and 62).
Mineral location - sodalite. 1906 : opened by T. Morrisson and 130 tons shipped to England as a decorative stone. 1960 : operated by C. Bosiak then P. Rasmussen for mineral specimens, in conjunction with a rock shop. The open-cut was about 200 ft long with a 5-10 ft face and there was a second pit at the foot of the hill. The former is now largely filled with loose rock and the north pit is the main working. The irregular distribution of the sodalite made it difficult to quarry but the use of explosives has made the removal of blocks an impossibility.
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt
Terrane: Bancroft
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - A biotite-nepheline-albite gneiss is cut by a small body of nepheline-albite pegmatite. Sodalite has developed along joints and fractures in the pegmatite and gneiss. Locally, the sodalite has a pegmatitic texture and ranges in size from fine veinlets to groups of crystals several cms wide. The sodalite is distributed very irregularly, but the best development is along fractures where it has spread out for several tens of cms in pegmatitic patches, along the gneissosity. Sodalite is associated with hydronephelite, cancrinite and green gieseckite and the alteration zones have a maximum width of about 3 ft. Apatite-biotite -calcite marble occurs at the E side of the S end of the old main working.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Vein | 1 | Host |
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| Pegmatite | 2 | Nepheline-albite | Host | |
| Marble | 3 | Adjacent |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Natrolite | Economic And Alteration | Hydrothermal | Stockwork | |||
| 3 | Gibbsite | Economic And Alteration | Hydrothermal | Stockwork | |||
| 1 | Sodalite | Economic And Alteration | Ore | Hydrothermal | 1 | Replacement | |
| 2 | Apatite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Biotite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 5 | Nepheline | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 7 | Calcite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 8 | Magnetite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 9 | Albite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Cancrinite | Alteration | Ore |
Jun 06, 2024 (Mateo Dorado-Troughton) - Minerals associated with the sodalite include cancrinite, hydronephelite (an informal name for the reddish mixture of natrolite (a zeolite mineral) and gibbsite (Al(OH)3) formed by the alteration of sodalite), nepheline and giesckite.
| Rank | Classification |
|---|---|
| 1 | Hydrothermal |
Date: May 30, 2024
Geologist: Mateo Dorado-Troughton
Notes: Toured as part of an RGP Section meeting with around 40 staff members. Also toured by SO RGP staff in the lead-up to the tour. The active quarry face and back-filled, historic pits were visited.
Part - Geology of Dungannon and Mayo townships
Publication Number: ARV64-08 Page: 59 Date: 1998
Author: Hewitt D.F., James W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Part - Nepheline syenite deposits of southern Ontario
Publication Number: ARV69-08 Page: 67-69 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F., Armstrong H.S., Tilley C.E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Geological series, industrial minerals of the Pembroke-Renfrew area, southern Ontario
Publication Number: P2209 Scale: 1:126,720 Date: 1980
Author: Vos M.A., Storey C.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
MonoMap - Industrial minerals of the Pembroke-Renfrew area, part 2
Publication Number: MDC022 Page: 94, 96 Date: 1981
Author: Storey C.C., Vos M.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
MonoMap - Industrial minerals of the Algonquin region
Publication Number: OFR5425 Page: 242, 266 Date: 1983
Author: Martin W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Publication - Report on the building and ornamental stones of Canada, vol. I; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 100
Publication Number: CMB Pub 100 Page: 342-343 Date: 1912
Author: Parks, W.A.
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/19686
Part - Mines of Ontario
Publication Number: ARV15-01.003 Page: 106-7 Date: 1998
Author: Corkill E.T.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
Location:
Part - Non-metallic mineral resources of Hastings County
Publication Number: ARV39-06.003 Page: 45 Date: 1998
Author: Osborne F.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Part - Mineral occurrences in the north Hastings area
Publication Number: ARV52-03 Page: 66-67 Date: 1998
Author: Thomson J.E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Book - THE MINERALOGICAL RECORD 1982, VOL 13 #4 (JULY-AUG), P202-3, 226-7, 335-8
Publication Number: N/A Date: 2000
Author:
Publisher Name:
Location:
Publication - Catalogue of Canadian minerals; Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 80-18
Publication Number: Paper 80-18 Page: 61, 127, 199,218,253 Date: 1980
Author: Traill, R J
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/119519
Mono - A catalogue of the Ontario localities represented by the mineral collection of the Royal Ontario Museum
Publication Number: MP070 Page: 218,234-5,261,283,36 Date: 1977
Author: Satterly J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Publication - Classic mineral collecting localities in Ontario and Quebec; Geological Survey of Canada, Miscellaneous Report 37
Publication Number: GSC MR 37 Page: 56-57 Date: 1983
Author: Hogarth, D D; Moyd, L; Rose, E R; Steacy, H R
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/119504
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